 How effective was the women’s suffrage movement?
Write / Don’t write.
 Suffrage, Franchise: the right to vote.
 Suffragette: Woman who fought for the right to vote.
 Vindication of the Rights of
Women
“Let women be what God intended, a helpmate for man, but
with totally different duties and vocations."
•R 1837-1901
•18 when took throne
•9 children
•Prince Albert died 1861
1839: If parents separated, children under 7 would be allowed to stay with their mother.
1857: Women were allowed to divorce a husband who beat them.
1870: Women were allowed to keep money they had earned.
1891: Women could not be forced to stay with their husband if they didn’t want to.
•Nurse during Crimean War
•Set standards for Nursing
•Red Cross
 1897
 Millicent Fawcett
 Little success
 1903
 Emmeline & Christabel Pankhurst
"this was the beginning of a campaign the like of which was never known in England, or for that
matter in any other country.....we interrupted a great many meetings......and we were violently
thrown out and insulted. Often we were painfully bruised and hurt."
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1858-1928
1889: Formed Women’s Franchise League.
1903: Formed Women’s Social & Political Union.
Arrested six times 1908-1912, went on Hunger Strike.
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Interrupted meetings.
Picketed & used loudspeakers against Parliament.
Refused to pay their taxes
When they were assaulted & arrested by police they began to…
 Burn down Churches of England.
 Break windows of men’s clubs.
 Chained themselves to Buckingham Palace
(home of Royal Family)
 Fire bombed houses of members of Parliament
 When imprisoned, Suffragettes went on Hunger
Strikes
 Government ordered
them to forced feeding.
 Public outcry.
 Passed Cat & Mouse Act
(Temporary Discharged for Health Act)
 Allowed Suffragette to starve till too weak to
resist, then released her.
 Rearrested her when she joined another
protest.
On December 20th Miss Selina
Martin and Miss Leslie Hall were
arrested in Liverpool, and were
remanded for one week, bail
being refused.
Accordingly, while still
unconvicted prisoners, they were
sent to Walton Gaol, Liverpool.
There, contrary to regulations,
intercourse with their friends was
denied to them. As unconvicted
prisoners they refused to submit
to the prison discipline or to take
the prison food.
Forcible feeding was threatened and Miss Martin therefore barricaded her cell. The
officials, however, effected an entrance, fell upon her and handcuffed her, dragged
her to a punishment cell and flung her on the floor, with her hands tightly fastened
together behind her back.
 1st Suffragette martyr.
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March 30th 1909: One month in prison for obstruction
July 30th 1909: Two months in prison for obstruction
September 4th 1909: Two months stone throwing White City, Manchester
October 20th 1909: One month for stone throwing at Radcliffe
November 19th 1910: One month for breaking windows House of Commons
January 10th 1912: Six months setting fire to postal boxes in London
November 30th 1912: Ten days for assaulting a vicar who she mistook to be David Lloyd George
 Died after throwing herself in front of the King’s Horse Amner at the 1913 Derby
 1914: Suffragette Movement stopped in order to
support World War I
 19I8: Representation of the People Act
 Gave women of property the right to vote at age 30
 1928: All women over the age of 21 could vote.
“If votes are given to "flappers" and if the constituencies are flooded with new and inexperienced
voters, men will be placed in a minority in two-thirds of the constituencies.”